Windows hit its lowest market share in decades, Microsoft lost $400 billion in a week, and now their own president is admitting they need to fix the OS. SteamOS and Linux aren’t waiting around.

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    7 hours ago

    I just installed kubuntu on a couple of 4th gen Microsoft surfaces rather than upgrade to win11. I needed to install a little extra for the touch screen but it was easy to find and easy to do.

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      6 hours ago

      Surface 4 sucks on w11. Mint is also a great choice. That’s what I’m using on mine at home. My only complaint is hardware, either the battery is finally falling or it has weird parasitic draw.

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        6 hours ago

        My battery died years ago so that’s no thing for me. It’s a bed and shed laptop, I’ve got mains power in both those places.

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          4 hours ago

          Replacing the battery is no joke. I spent a few hours on the task, but I was bouncing between that and several other things.